LATEST HIGHLIGHTS
OFF THE GRID
Genre: Young Adult Adventure/Drama
Format: 1hr Pilot
Logline: After a privileged teen screws up her last chance to avoid expulsion, she’s shipped off to spend her senior year in a traveling boot camp aboard a converted school bus.
AWAKENING
Genre: Supernatural Drama
Format: 1hr Pilot
Logline: A chronic insomniac takes up meditation therapy in an effort to manage her life, but an encounter with a comatose girl entangles her with a group of rogue investigators and forces her to confront hidden memories from her troubled past.
THE SUMMONS
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure
Format: 1hr Pilot
Logline: Four misfit teens are recruited by a council of mystical beings and must harness their own newly-enhanced abilities to survive against a foe seeking to eliminate the symbiotic pact that protects both realms against annihilation.
ABOUT ZAE
Zaelyna Beck is a Scifi/Fantasy and Young Adult writer with recent credits as a Writers’ Assistant for a prominent upcoming scifi series. She earned her Bachelor’s from Southern CT State studying writing, psychology, and music. After graduation, Zae jumped aboard several reality, commercial, and corporate productions as she trekked across the U.S. She has published articles on local entertainment to the online platform Examiner.com and freelanced as a ghostwriter and manuscript editor, in addition to crewing on a number of independent short films. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Zae secured a position as an Office PA in scripted television and worked her way up the assistant ladder on hit shows for ABC, Freeform, and Disney+.
Zae often writes about offbeat characters in formed-family dynamics, with a portfolio spanning from television and features, to novels, short-form prose, and video games. Her 1hr supernatural pilot AWAKENING placed as a Semifinalist with WeScreenplay Diverse Voices. She is currently developing new projects while seeking representation and staffing opportunities.